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Why do you think that suggesting to wear a mask during a global pandemic was "all theater"? If you had to go into an ebola ward, and someone handed you a mask,

Why do you think that suggesting to wear a mask during a global pandemic was "all theater"? If you had to go into an ebola ward, and someone handed you a mask, would you really refuse to wear it?

sfblah 2y ago
Where I live (Alameda County, California), people were required by law to wear a mask outdoors when within 30 feet of another person. This was not merely a "suggestion" and it was enforced. My decision about ebola would be based on whether masks are effective or not. I haven't researched the topic.
- leptons 2y ago
  We're far, far beyond the point where we have to question or wonder if wearing an air filter in an infectious disease ward will decrease your chances of catching the disease. Maybe you personally really don't know, but maybe you're being willfully ignorant, I don't know you. If you refused to wear the mask, the very serious and educated people at the door of the ebola ward would likely refuse you entry to the ebola ward, which is probably all for the better anyway.
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nate_meurer 2y ago
In every public place I visited during the pandemic, the official rules stated you could leave your mask down if you were eating or drinking. This included two of the largest hospitals in Colorado. In bars and restaurants you only had to wear a mask if you were standing up, and at all other times you were allowed to eat, drink, laugh and talk unmasked. On airplanes everyone unmasked while eating meals. If masking was truly primarily about stopping the spread of a highly contagious airborne virus, why were the rules designed and applied to allow people to spend so much time in confined spaces unmasked?
- leptons 2y ago
  The original comment claimed that the suggestion to wear a mask was "all theater" during a pandemic, because masks don't actually protect people. The proposition was "wearing a mask is all theater", but your comment is explaining how not wearing a mask in particular situations was theater. Wearing the mask is not theater, it's an effective mitigation. Taking the mask off in an enclosed space and pretending you're safe is the theater part, but that isn't what OP was talking about.
  - nate_meurer 2y ago
    Like the OP, I'm just pointing out that the masking requirements set out by governments and institutions at all levels were highly theatrical in nature, and I gave some concrete examples. Do you disagree? For example, the requirement by local governments to wear masks in restaurants only while standing... Do you think that had any practical "non-theatric" value?

Why do you think that suggesting to wear a mask during a global pandemic was "all theater"? If you had to go into an ebola ward, and someone handed you a mask, would you really refuse to wear it?

sfblah 2y ago

Where I live (Alameda County, California), people were required by law to wear a mask outdoors when within 30 feet of another person. This was not merely a "suggestion" and it was enforced. My decision about ebola would be based on whether masks are effective or not. I haven't researched the topic.

leptons 2y ago
We're far, far beyond the point where we have to question or wonder if wearing an air filter in an infectious disease ward will decrease your chances of catching the disease. Maybe you personally really don't know, but maybe you're being willfully ignorant, I don't know you. If you refused to wear the mask, the very serious and educated people at the door of the ebola ward would likely refuse you entry to the ebola ward, which is probably all for the better anyway.
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nate_meurer 2y ago

In every public place I visited during the pandemic, the official rules stated you could leave your mask down if you were eating or drinking. This included two of the largest hospitals in Colorado. In bars and restaurants you only had to wear a mask if you were standing up, and at all other times you were allowed to eat, drink, laugh and talk unmasked. On airplanes everyone unmasked while eating meals. If masking was truly primarily about stopping the spread of a highly contagious airborne virus, why were the rules designed and applied to allow people to spend so much time in confined spaces unmasked?

leptons 2y ago
The original comment claimed that the suggestion to wear a mask was "all theater" during a pandemic, because masks don't actually protect people. The proposition was "wearing a mask is all theater", but your comment is explaining how not wearing a mask in particular situations was theater. Wearing the mask is not theater, it's an effective mitigation. Taking the mask off in an enclosed space and pretending you're safe is the theater part, but that isn't what OP was talking about.
- nate_meurer 2y ago
  Like the OP, I'm just pointing out that the masking requirements set out by governments and institutions at all levels were highly theatrical in nature, and I gave some concrete examples. Do you disagree? For example, the requirement by local governments to wear masks in restaurants only while standing... Do you think that had any practical "non-theatric" value?